Three months before President Bush claimed he had evidence that Saddam Hussein was building a nuclear weapon, State Department analyst Simon Dodge apparently determined that the evidence was likely fraudulent:

Dodge emailed his assessment to fellow intelligence analysts in October 2002, and then again in January 2003 (two weeks before Bush’s State of the Union), saying the documents supposedly from Niger were “probably a hoax” and “clearly a forgery.”

Now, State Department Secretary Condoleezza Rice is resisting a congressional hearing on the matter and Rep. Henry Waxman, House Oversight and Goverment Reform chairman, is busy firing of more pesky letters of inquiry.
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